Penny Wong challenges Chinese foreign minister over ‘unprecedented’ live fire drills off Australian coast

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has pressed China to be more transparent about the actions of its warships off Australia’s east coast after they issued a live fire drill warning at short notice on Friday, forcing multiple commercial airlines to divert flights over the Tasman Sea. Senator Wong met her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in South Africa just hours after the ships conducted the exercise, which analysts say was an unprecedented demonstration of China’s growing naval power near Australian shores. Chinese gave live fire warning with planes ‘literally flying across the Tasman’ Photo shows…